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Chief Justice John Roberts: Fill vacant federal judge slots. Are you listening, John Cornyn?

I'd complained the other day, after the US Senate Judiciary Committee rejected two judicial nominees for Texas' Southern federal judicial district, that the region's federal courts were overburdened, the Southern District's case backlog is becoming overwhelmed, and that rejecting two perfectly qualified judges in a district which had been designated with "emergency" status since the Bush administration was irresponsible and short-sighted, short changing Texans - particularly, and ironically, those concerned with maximizing immigration enforcement, which is the main task the still-leaderless US Attorney's office in the Southern District has been engaged in for the last several years.Apparently I'm not the only one frustrated with the slow pace of judicial appointments...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 03, 2011 (boomark / email).